Thursday, March 24, 2011

The honeymoon is over. O.V.E.R. This last week I have begun to knit, crochet and sew my way out of a ridiculously long list of Presents Owed. Then when I approached each kid, wielding camera, looking hopeful, there was only flat refusal: I’d rather shove bamboo under my fingernails! TWICE! declared the eldest. Not when hell freezes over and cryopreserves the Devil for future study! growled the Middle. Not for all the tea parties in China! flounced the youngest.

Colin, quietly observing the grovelling and the hissy-fitting, instigated the negotiation of a mutually agreeable, craft-modelling outcome...

The image above, is Colin modelling a bib for a baby, born quite some time ago. I can’t really show you the bib, a) because it would entirely spoil any taken-aback-ness (surprise) at receiving such a late gift and b). because Colin’s key negotiated requirement was to get to be Superman. With a cape-bib. Supercolin.

The image below, is Colin modelling a strawberry beanie. For another wee one, it is a woolly hat made purposely big (Colin does have a smallish head) to coincide with a winter three seasons away.

Here we have Colin modelling a crocheted Queen Anne’s Lace Scarf. This is a gift intended for someone who has quite possibly forgotten that I owe them a birthday gift from eleven months ago.

I am chuffed beyond imagination to be ahead of deadline on this one. Even though I can’t make the birthday party on Saturday and my niece will never know of my fleeting organisation. Here is Colin modelling a size 2, girly, twirly, Lazy Days Skirt. Colin could not be charmed into performing a girly twirl. I did not mean to stick him with the pin, holding the skirt waist tight. Nonetheless, poor Colin seemed to feel the pain of pin-sticking and standing about in girly twirl stuff too much to bear.

58 comments:

Ahh, who needs kids when you have colin? Be sure to give him a big cream cake and let him watch whatever he wants on the tellybox as a reward for perfect posture { and quite honestly, tolerance of girly twirliness..} whilst instructing the kids to 'go clean their rooms'!!! Well, thats what I would do! x

colin and his superman cape brought chuckles of laughter to the breakfast table, and made it slightly ok that I was looking at blogs while breakfast was happening.Love the Queen Anne scarf - I made one awhile ago, would be a fab gift.

Go SuperColin, go! I especially love Colin in the Strawberry Beanie.I am yet to finish some cushion cover's, that were supposed to Christmas 2010 presents. They got one.....maybe the rest will be finished for next Christmas?

I think Colin deserves a big ole banana split while the kiddos watch in envy..He definitely got the job done for you..Darn those stubborn kids. We just want to tell them how beautiful they are and pinch their cheeks. What's not to love about that :P...

So many lovely crafty bits to comment on but basically I'm stuck imagining how bloody chuffed you must have been when you managed to get that first shot! I would have been doing the running on the spot happy dance (a la 'Flashdance') if I'd managed to capture that bit of awesomeness!

I was kind of, you know, thinking: "flying teddy bear, seen those around my house". And then Colin amazed and delighted with his steely nerve to take on any assignment presented to him. Truly a superbear in my eyes now.

How fantastic is that first photo. He looks so much easier than getting my Monkeys to pose.Your knitting and crochet makes me gulp, and think jeez I've got a lot of practising to do...maybe one day when I grow up, I could do a crocheted scarf like that.

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Mother of three, wife to one, designer and craftster of the slightly obsessive kind. Myrtle and Eunice were two lovely old ladies who connected weekly over the Scrabble tiles. These Saturday battles of will and skill were a ritual as comfy as a hot Milo and handknitted blanket on a frosty day.